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555 “The forest is our storehouse,” one resident explains. “We have a village forest and a backup forest.” https://news.mongabay.com/2017/07/merabus-efforts-to-keep-the-carbon-in-its-trees/7/5/17 10:30 AM

428 A newly discovered snake in Takengon, in the highlands of Aceh province, was named for one of Indonesia’s few herpetologists. https://news.mongabay.com/2017/06/2-new-reptiles-discovered-in-sumatra/6/27/17 5:53 AM

208 [3 years ago] Although the species was first described in 1883 and is considered the sole representative of the Atelocynus genus, biologists spent over a century largely in the dark about an animal that seemed almost a myth. https://news.mongabay.com/2014/07/short-eared-dog-uncovering-the-secrets-of-one-of-the-amazons-most-mysterious-mammals/7/26/17 7:06 PM

207 [2 years ago] “Unspeakable cruelty is involved in the trade in slow lorises and the public must be made aware of this.” https://news.mongabay.com/2015/06/new-campaign-says-tickling-is-torture-for-slow-lorises/6/17/17 4:22 PM

207 Sometimes it’s not good to report that you’ve found a new species ~ https://news.mongabay.com/2011/12/the-dark-side-of-new-species-discovery/6/17/17 10:09 AM

203 What brought the lioness and leopard cub together are still a mystery ~ https://news.mongabay.com/2017/07/first-ever-photos-of-wild-lion-nursing-leopard-cub/7/22/17 4:28 PM

127 The primate was discovered in the forests of the Gaoligong Mountains, which straddle the border between southwest China and northern Myanmar. https://news.mongabay.com/2017/01/meet-the-new-skywalker-gibbon/6/28/17 4:45 PM

126 [2 years ago] The NGO, African Parks, moved seven lions from South Africa to Rwanda’s Akagera National Park. https://news.mongabay.com/2015/06/lions-return-to-rwanda/6/30/17 6:56 PM

124 Stunningly honest in this video, illegal loggers and politicians celebrating that 2,317 square miles of federally protected Amazon forest is poised to be opened for logging & mining, watch and then read more here: https://news.mongabay.com/2017/06/brazil-on-verge-of-legitimizing-amazon-land-theft-on-a-grand-scale/6/16/17 8:16 AM

120 [1 year ago] In the mysterious depths of the Marianas Trench Marine National Monument off of the Philippines in the Pacific Ocean, scientists have filmed a ghostly-looking fish belonging to the Aphyonidae family. https://news.mongabay.com/2016/07/looks-like-casper-expedition-captures-first-ever-live-footage-of-ghostlike-fish/7/18/17 7:14 PM

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14054 Sometimes it’s not good to report that you’ve found a new species ~ https://news.mongabay.com/2011/12/the-dark-side-of-new-species-discovery/6/17/17 10:09 AM

7632 “The forest is our storehouse,” one resident explains. “We have a village forest and a backup forest.” https://news.mongabay.com/2017/07/merabus-efforts-to-keep-the-carbon-in-its-trees/7/5/17 10:30 AM

5807 [1 year ago]Borneo, the third-largest island in the world, is home to more endemic carnivores than any other island except Madagascar. https://news.mongabay.com/2016/06/saving-borneos-wild-cats-and-small-carnivores/6/25/17 6:46 PM

5539 A newly discovered snake in Takengon, in the highlands of Aceh province, was named for one of Indonesia’s few herpetologists. https://news.mongabay.com/2017/06/2-new-reptiles-discovered-in-sumatra/6/27/17 5:53 AM

4848 [2 years ago] “Unspeakable cruelty is involved in the trade in slow lorises and the public must be made aware of this.” https://news.mongabay.com/2015/06/new-campaign-says-tickling-is-torture-for-slow-lorises/6/17/17 4:22 PM

4456 Fewer than 100 Sumatran rhinos (Dicerorhinus sumatrensis) remain in the wild, a number many biologists say is too low to ensure the survival of the species. https://news.mongabay.com/2017/06/footprints-in-the-forest-the-future-of-the-sumatran-rhino/6/23/17 10:14 AM

2726 Observers credit this success to broad-based support for conservation, including at the highest levels of Nepal’s government and military.h ttps://news.mongabay.com/2016/12/nepals-extraordinary-devotion-to-preserving-its-rhinos/6/23/17 2:36 PM

2656 The Ulu Muda forest is the primary source of water for four million Malaysians, as well as for industry and agriculture. The forest is also home to a huge diversity of species, including the Asian elephant, Malayan tapir, sambar deer and clouded and spotted leopards. https://news.mongabay.com/2017/06/logging-in-malaysias-ulu-muda-forest-threatens-wildlife-and-water-supplies/6/26/17 10:22 AM

2634 In 2015, a team of researchers left 21 camera traps on a previously unsurveyed ridge in Peru’s Sira Communal Reserve for six months and captured some of the first images of the critically endangered Sira curassow to be made publicly available. https://news.mongabay.com/wildtech/2017/02/camera-traps-proving-to-be-powerful-tool-for-studying-endangered-species-in-remote-locations/6/26/17 2:45 PM

2566 The Indonesian Ministry of Environment and Forestry announced that hidden cameras had confirmed the presence of Javan leopards (Panthera pardus melas) in Cikepuh, a wildlife sanctuary along the island’s southern coast. https://news.mongabay.com/2017/02/193114/6/26/17 4:52 PM

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106 “The forest is our storehouse,” one resident explains. “We have a village forest and a backup forest.” https://news.mongabay.com/2017/07/merabus-efforts-to-keep-the-carbon-in-its-trees/7/5/17 10:30 AM

82 A newly discovered snake in Takengon, in the highlands of Aceh province, was named for one of Indonesia’s few herpetologists. https://news.mongabay.com/2017/06/2-new-reptiles-discovered-in-sumatra/6/27/17 5:53 AM

46 [2 years ago] “Unspeakable cruelty is involved in the trade in slow lorises and the public must be made aware of this.” https://news.mongabay.com/2015/06/new-campaign-says-tickling-is-torture-for-slow-lorises/6/17/17 4:22 PM

40 In a remote forest in western Venezuela, scientists have rediscovered a bird that was last seen more than 60 years ago. https://news.mongabay.com/2017/07/rare-bird-not-seen-in-60-years-rediscovered/7/27/17 2:45 PM

38 [3 years ago] Snakes are beautiful. Snakes are wildly diverse. Snakes are important ecological predators, especially in keeping rodent populations in check. And let’s face it snakes have survived a lot longer than us: over 100 million years to date. 🐍 #WorldSnakeDay 🐍https://news.mongabay.com/2014/07/please-dont-hate-us-celebrating-world-snake-day/7/16/17 6:30 PM

38 Stunningly honest in this video, illegal loggers and politicians celebrating that 2,317 square miles of federally protected Amazon forest is poised to be opened for logging & mining, watch and then read more here: https://news.mongabay.com/2017/06/brazil-on-verge-of-legitimizing-amazon-land-theft-on-a-grand-scale/6/16/17 8:16 AM

37 What brought the lioness and leopard cub together are still a mystery ~ https://news.mongabay.com/2017/07/first-ever-photos-of-wild-lion-nursing-leopard-cub/7/22/17 4:28 PM

33 The Indonesian Ministry of Environment and Forestry announced that hidden cameras had confirmed the presence of Javan leopards (Panthera pardus melas) in Cikepuh, a wildlife sanctuary along the island’s southern coast. https://news.mongabay.com/2017/02/193114/6/26/17 4:52 PM

32 Sometimes it’s not good to report that you’ve found a new species ~ https://news.mongabay.com/2011/12/the-dark-side-of-new-species-discovery/6/17/17 10:09 AM

32 Mangroves are removed to make way for shrimp and fish farms. But without the forests’ protection, coastal communities become dangerously vulnerable to erosion and flooding. https://news.mongabay.com/2017/07/photos-where-once-were-mangroves-javan-villages-struggle-to-beat-back-the-sea/7/3/17 10:24 AM

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70320 “The forest is our storehouse,” one resident explains. “We have a village forest and a backup forest.” https://news.mongabay.com/2017/07/merabus-efforts-to-keep-the-carbon-in-its-trees/7/5/17 10:30 AM

59870 A newly discovered snake in Takengon, in the highlands of Aceh province, was named for one of Indonesia’s few herpetologists. https://news.mongabay.com/2017/06/2-new-reptiles-discovered-in-sumatra/6/27/17 5:53 AM

46939 Sets of remote cameras placed in trees can detect a wide range of diurnal and nocturnal arboreal vertebrates and help assess species presence relative to environmental factors. https://news.mongabay.com/wildtech/2017/07/camera-trapping-in-the-trees/7/5/17 8:23 AM

29869 [2 years ago] The NGO, African Parks, moved seven lions from South Africa to Rwanda’s Akagera National Park. https://news.mongabay.com/2015/06/lions-return-to-rwanda/6/30/17 6:56 PM

27534 [2 years ago] Invasive species are among the greatest threats to the world’s biodiversity, and amphibians rank among the most devastating vertebrate invaders. https://news.mongabay.com/2015/07/invasion-of-poisonous-asian-toad-in-madagascar-is-a-greater-threat-to-biodiversity-than-previously-thought/7/5/17 7:00 PM

18348 Government camera traps spotted three individuals in the Cikepuh Wildlife Reserve, along the southern coast of Indonesia’s main central island of Java. https://news.mongabay.com/2017/02/193114/7/5/17 2:52 PM

17663 Building on research in which they showed that two species have gone extinct per year over the past century, a team of biologists analyzed the population trends for 27,600 vertebrates around the world. https://news.mongabay.com/2017/07/ongoing-mass-extinction-causing-biological-annihilation-new-study-says/7/12/17 8:21 AM

15303 What brought the lioness and leopard cub together are still a mystery ~ https://news.mongabay.com/2017/07/first-ever-photos-of-wild-lion-nursing-leopard-cub/7/22/17 4:28 PM

13937 It was thought that intensifying beef production on already established pastures could keep Amazon trees from falling. https://news.mongabay.com/2017/06/is-intensification-of-beef-production-really-a-solution-to-amazonian-deforestation/7/8/17 8:07 AM

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